"A fool and his money are soon partying" - Steven Wright
Hizballah is reportedly going broke, but Nasrallah is said to be livin' large. "Hezbollah's Nasrallah worth $250M?" by Doron Peskin for YNet News, December 29:
American intelligence officials estimate fortune of Shiite organization's leader, senior members totals some $2 billion, which are scattered in hundreds of bank accounts across the world
Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah is worth some $250 million, a Saudi newspaper reported recently, quoting American intelligence officials.
According to the report, the fortune of Nasrallah's deputy, Sheikh Naim Qassem, and other senior organization members amounts to as much as $2 billion.
The anonymous intelligence sources believe the funds have been deposited in hundreds of bank accounts across the world, including in Europe, using fabricated or fake names.
Two Western sources are quoted as saying that the Hezbollah leaders from time to time channel millions of dollars from their bank accounts or their wives' bank accounts to senior members of the Revolutionary Guards in Iran, who are responsible for transferring money to the Shiite organization from the office of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
According to the report, Iranian parliament members are aware of this corruption, are unhappy with it but are avoiding discussing it.
Straw companies
A British security source who worked at the embassies in Saudi Arabia and Lebanon in the 1990s is quoted as saying that the West has figured out Hezbollah's money laundering method.
According to the source, the Shiite organization's common method is setting up straw companies in Arab or African countries, which sell cars or large amounts of goods.
See also: the recent identification of a ring of over 30 U.S. auto businesses implicated in funneling almost half a billion dollars to Hizballah.
The organizations also operate small cells of six to 10 people who specialize in stealing cellular phones, personal computers or credit cards, and open fake bank accounts using the victims' details.
According to the report, the Hezbollah members also specialize in stealing passports, which are used by the organization operatives to travel around the world for commerce purposes, among others.
By setting up companies, mainly in Eastern European countries and in Soviet republics in central Asia, Hezbollah provides all the financial needs of the organization members in Lebanon.
According to a recent report among many on the organization's financial situation, senior Iranian officials are furious over an internal report pointing to corruption among Hezbollah's highest ranks.
Another report says the Iranians were "amazed" to learn of the flamboyant life led by the organization members, mainly during their visits abroad.
"The organizations also operate small cells of six to 10 people who specialize in stealing cellular phones, personal computers or credit cards, and open fake bank accounts using the victims' details."
From 20 THINGS EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT ISLAM...
19. Encourages Muslims to parasitize their host nations. In fact, Muslims have no obligation to their host nations. Any free nation is considered “the Enemy” (The Great Satan is USA). Welfare fraud, identity theft, forgery etc. are endemic in Western Muslim populations, and serious crime against Kaffirs is regarded as normal and justified. Extortion rackets against Kafirs are mandated by the Koran (’jizya’ is the Arabic term for ‘protection money’ payable by Jews and Christians to Muslims under threat of death)...
Repeating something we all have known for a long time, for the millionth time, that's why goons like Nasrallah, Yasser Arafascist, Mahound Arabdinejad and those of their ilk always urge their followers to light the fuses of their islamic suppositories, while never considering doing so themselves... Whereas their followers die for vain hopes of a non-existing paradise, their heroes enjoy their own paradise on Earth with all that money.
Same corruption as in Africa & why people are still starving there, despite the billions of dollars that have been thrown at it. African politicians get rich, the people keep starving.
Islam is just another pyramid-like social structure like Communism or Nazism where the guys at the top control the mugs at the bottom who are blissfully happy to die for "the cause". All promises of a blissful afterlife are, of course, simply used to convince the dumb masses to follow the "prophet" or leader. Islam is a mental chimera which does not withstand scrutiny.
Islam is a ponzi scheme with the Imam/Ayatollah crowd at the top...
The simplest way to fix up these terrorists would be to raid their Swiss bank accounts and pour all that accumulated jizya back into the European economy, having carefully got rid of the EUSSR bureacracy in Brussels first.
Love how the Iranians are "amazed" - because Hezbollah members just live and breathe honesty!!
IT does seem that despite Obama's proMuslim stance, some USA agencies seem to be managing to do some of their job. Good on them.
islam stole words from the Jews and the Christians. But most all, Moe took lessons from ancient Egypt to empower the priestly class. Afterlife for you schmos, while I go hog wild on this earth.
Nasrallah the multimillionaire, the man (with Iran intelligence help) behind the Jewish community center bombing in Buenos Aires in 1994, the man who has called on Muslims to kill all Jews everywhere- now we know what a hypocrite he is.
It's always been about money. Khadijah's dogmatic embelishments of her delusional husband proved to be a panacea of lucrative exploitation of all who sought refuge along desert routes.
Khadijah, the first exploiter of Islam. Her legacy lives on.
Occupy Nasrallah the 1%er.
i.e., the super-1%er.
There's a guy "missing" in Manchester, CT, who runs a car dealership. He went "missing" one week before the indictment came out via the DEA et al investigation into this funneling/laundering scheme.
Huge Palestinian activist. Family weeping big sad tears. He left a wife with infant quadruplets.
Hello...DEA and friends, go take a peek? Please?
"the West has figured out Hezbollah's money laundering method"
What moron publicly admits to the enemy that we've compromised their war strategy?
arg:""the West has figured out Hezbollah's money laundering method"
What moron publicly admits to the enemy that we've compromised their war strategy?"
So to the point.
Between hawala and Sharia compliant financing,
"Oh my, how the money rolls in."
Arafat had the same 'ben Midan' touch. A dollar here and milion there; pretty soon we have a few bucks on our hands. NOw we'll hear it's an indemnifying trust, like Harvard or the Ford Foundation.
Don't judge sit smug with the knowledge, Damnit! Use it!
Now is the time to propagandize and exploit this thoughout the Palestinian camps and their 'Diaspora'.
"What moron publicly admits to the enemy that we've compromised their war strategy?"
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Probably one that is hoping one of those goons has a light bulb epiphany and decides to take out Nasrallah thus saving us the trouble of doing it.
Just reading about this kind of stuff makes me feel grubby, like I need to go take a bath.
Further point. What if this is typical? What if one can say - as Hezbollah, so also the rest of the Ummah, in all its many 'groups and groupuscules'?
I think the former Czech PM, Milos Zeman, was getting close to the truth when he said (in this article)
http://praguemonitor.com/2011/07/08/former-czech-pm-sued-over-statements-islam
'Former Czech PM sued over statements on Islam'
"The enemy is the anti-civilisation spreading from North Africa to Indonesia. Two billion people live in it and it is financed partly from oil sales and partly from drug sales".
'Partly from drug sales'.
And, in the past and even today, by slavery - actual or de facto.
And, it seems more and more likely, by every imaginable kind of dishonesty, thievery, robbery and fraud, both great and small, known to man.
To me, Islam looks less and less like a 'religion' and more and more like an Organised Crime 'Family', complete with ruthlessly murderous factional warfare. Or else one might liken it to the Thuggees or to the Triads, in both of which there was (or is) a mystifying 'code' of sorts.
Hizballah honcho Nasrallah reportedly worth $250 million
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Why should this come as any sort of surprise? Yasser Arafat amassed a huge personal fortune from both "Zakat" from the Ummah and "foreign aid" from foolish Kaffirs.
This is *always* the case with Islam.
I imagine Iran is just surprised that they would do it to the "Islamic Republic" as well as everyone else...